Sentence examples for duress in from inspiring English sources

She signed her forms signalling it had been done unwillingly by writing "under duress" in Latin.

Baking under duress in a wedding tent has never been so watchable.

Reid maintained that she acted under duress in a Mail on Sunday interview earlier this month, despite her guilty plea.

Latos displayed no such duress in allowing just two runs, one earned, and four hits in five and two-thirds innings.

QUESTION FROM JAMES: Don't think Ryan meant to use duress in that way… QUESTION FROM GUEST: Embarrassed to think Paul is from my state.

A German museum has returned a 15th-century Renaissance painting to the estate of a Jewish art dealer who was forced to sell it under duress in 1935.

But perhaps the most intense episode of migration-under-duress in modern times occurred after the partition of India in 1947, when 7m Muslims fled India for the new state of Pakistan and 7m Hindus fled in the opposite direction.As individuals, not merely as members of races or religions in flight, people have always travelled in search of a better life.

In the film, Begg describes how he signed what he now terms a false confession to being a member of Al Qaeda in 2002, at a time when he was said to be under duress while in detention at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

She added: "At no time whilst in Kiev did Mr Mooney or Mr Higgins show any signs of being under duress or in any way unhappy at being in our company.

It is sometimes said that in extortion the victim consents, although under duress, while in robbery his will is overwhelmed so that there is no consent; but this is an extremely tenuous distinction.

In this third space, the parties attend without duress and in good faith to progress a power-sensitive conversation based on the principles of an ethic of love – the social precautionary principle, social sustainability and social justice.